Today launched the long awaited Meizu MX4 Pro, the big brother of the Meizu MX4 Flagship. We have for you all specs, details and some first hands-on pictures from the MX4 Pro Launch Event!

Meizu takes quite a bit of risk with launching their main Flagship the Meizu MX4 Pro so late in the year. One the one hand now they need to compete with all the models already on the market from Xiaomi, OnePlus and Huawei and also their own Meizu MX4. On the other hand they will need to compete with next years flagships like the Honor 7 and Oppo Find 9. After our first looks at the Meizu MX4 Pro we think the MX4 Pro has what it takes to stay well in the battle.

Meizu surprised many of us with the choice of the Eight-Core Samsung Exynos 5430 Processor for the MX4 Pro. The Eight Core Exynos 5430 Processor is the same we can find in the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. Its a true OctaCore Processor, since it works with big.LITTLE technology, and all cores can run at the great time for excellent multi-core performance. The processor also has the newest hexa-core Mali-T628 MP6 GPU. We are not exactly sure why Meizu choose this processor for the MX4 Pro and not the Exynos 5433 of the Galaxy Note 4, but we are very sure it will be able the super high resolution without worry. We will also post some benchmarks later, but as always the real world performance counts.

Compared to the Meizu MX4, the MX4 Pro is a tad larger with a 5.5 ” display and thicker bezels of 2.8mm. Overall the MX4 Pro is pretty slim though with only 77mm, which is very impressive for a 5.5″ smartphone. The Display takes up full 76.5% of the whole smartphone front, which is a good screen to front ratio.

Speaking of Display, with a 2K 5.5″ Screen and a resolution of 2560 x 1536 combined with 546ppi, the MX4 PRO might just have one of the best 2K screens available at the moment. The MX4 Pro screen integrates a negative LCD with Backlight, to improve the screen visibility and reduce battery consumption. Similiar to the LG G3 the Pro also has Panel Self Refresh to increase battery life.

Knowing that 2K displays are taxing for the battery, Meizu increased the battery life to a 3350mAH battery. According to Meizu that lasts 1.5 days with LTE usage. The MX 4PRO sports FDD-LTE and TDD-LTE, and of course 3G and GSM too. We will soon see if the battery life expectations are correct.

One of the biggest changes on the MX4 Pro is the Fingerprint Scanner in the Home Button. The Scanner is protected with Sapphire Glass and within 500ms the Meizu Touch System will decide if you are the legit owner of the phone via Fingerprint Scan. In contrast to other Android Fingerprint Scanners this one is touch and not swipe activated like the Samsung variants for example. All data is stores in ARM-trusted zones and encrypted.

The Main Camera stays the same as on the MX4 with the 20.7 mega-pixel Sony Beast. Meizu integrated Sapphire glass though and a new ISP with an advanced algorithm, for less noise and purer colors. With the new ISP the MX4 Pro can 30 pictures per sec, record 4K HDR videos and 100fps slow motion videos as well. Meizu improved the front cameras as well to an 5MP shooter with F2.2 aperture and pixel size of 1.4 μm, to make full usage of Flyme 4.0 new beautification feature.

As many of you could tell already from the Teaser Images the MX4 Pro also got a make over for audio hardware. The MX4 Pro sports an OPA1612 operation amplifier to maximise dynamic ranges and get very low distortion. In combinatioon with the amplifier works a ESS 9018 DAC Audio chip. This audio team makes the MX4 Pro definitely interesting for music lovers.

The rest of the MX4 Pro hardware stays the same with the MX4 with FDD-LTE, TD-LTE, 20.7MP Camera and Flyme 4.0 on Android 4.4 with a lot of themes to use.

The Meizu MX4 Pro will retail at a very attractive price of 2499 Yuan (1375RM) for the 16GB Version and no international launch dates yet. For 2K 5.5″ display, Octa-Core Samsung Exynos Processor, 3GB RAM, 20.7MP Sony Camera the Meizu MX4 Pro is definitely a very hot deal. Well done Meizu!